Apparatus for coaling boats.



PATENTBD VMAY 24, 1904 H. D. sTEARNs. APPARATUS PoR GOALING BOATS.

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APPARATUS FR COALING BOATS.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY DANIEL STEARNS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

APPARATUS FOR 4COALINC- BOATS.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent N0. 760,934, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed January 12, 1904. Serial No. 188,742. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY DANIEL STEARNS, a citizen of the United States, residing in New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Ooaling Boats, of which 'the following is a specification.

My invention relates, generally stated, to apparatus arranged on a coal-barge employing coal elevating and discharging means and suitable power means, also on the coal-barge, adapted for operating the elevating and discharging means.

Coal breaking and weighing devices'form' a part of the apparatus as a whole.

The invention resides chiefly in the combination of the several devices and means employed in the apparatus as a whole, which devices and means will hereinafter be `fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. h

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevated sectional view showing one end of a common coal-barge of the bunker type in illustration of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 1. In the view in Fig. 2 one of the bunkers, indicated by the dotted crossing-lines, is broken away to show shafting through which power is supplied to coal-breakers under the bunkers. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 3 3 of Fig. l and looking in the direction 0f the arrow. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of the coal -weighing device used by me, the same being located and adapted for receiving coal elevated from the barge-bunkers and for delivering it into transferring conveyer-buckets; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view showing the delivery end of the conveyer-buckets with the same adapted for discharging into a suitable chute through which the coal is led in the bunkers of a boat being coaled.

In the several figures in the drawings, A denotes a common type of coal-barge having a series of open-top bins or bunkers B and O. Transversely arranged on the coal-barge and bridging opposite sides of the several bunkers B, I provide rails or beams D, serving as supports for framing E of any suitable weighinvention, and therefore it becomes necessary only tov say that in the machine shown Gr denotes the .coal-receiving hopper which in this type of machine has two chutes H, leading into weighing-hoppers I. The lower ends of the chutes are provided with closing-doors J, having link connection K to the upper end of the weighing-hoppers I, as shown in Fig. 4 and well understood, the connections between the doors J and the hoppers being adapted for opening and closing the lower ends of the chutes H upon raising and lowering action, as common.

The hoppers I have trun-nion-support on the inner ends of the arms L, having a suspended fulcrum M. The outer ends of the arms L are connected to any suitable scalebeam through means of a cable or rope O, substantially as indicated in Fig. 4. The lower ends of the hoppers are closed by gates P, as common with this type of weighing-machine, and they have spouts Q to deliver into a common open-bottom hopper It. Upon reference to Figs. 1 and 2 it will be noticed that the hopper is offset somewhat, adapted to deliver coal into buckets S of the well-known Hunt or Jeffreys conveyer T.

The conveyer T is extended to the upper end of a tower U, and its buckets are made to tilt by well-known tripping devices, such as a pin V on each bucket and an incline on fixed cam W. (See Fig. 5.)

The buckets S dump the elevated coal in the upper end of a chute c, supported by a rope b, beam c, and a suitable windlass d. The beam c may have any adjusting means, such as a rope Z, leading to any suitable winding device at d.

The chute a may be of any well-known extensible type adapted in contracted form for feeding into the near bunker of a ship and in extending form for delivering'into the far side bunkers of a ship, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

f denotes aeonveyer with buckets and constructed similar to the conveyer T. The conveyer f is arranged as passing over the hopper Gr and its buckets S adapted to dump thereinto by tripping devices V W similar in form to like means above mentioned in connection with and at the upper end of the con-- veyer T.

The conveyer f extends down into the coalbarge, passing under an outlet in the bunkerbottom, and has its buckets adapted for receiving coal passed through Crushers L in or below the said bunker-outlet.

It will be seen upon reference to Figs. 4 and 5 that suitable guide-railsc' are provided for the conveyers T f.,

The tower U may have guysupporting means j', as indicated in Fig. 3.

My invention eomprehends the employment of hoisting and elevating conveyers and other means', as above described, at each coalbunker on the barge. It also comprehends power means, such as a boiler and engine 7c, centrally located on the barge and preferably in direct coupling withv a main shaft Z, through which and suitable connections the eonveyers T f are driven.r A counter-shaft m, is also provided for operating the windingdrums or windlass eZ. The crushers /L are driven through suitable belting connections to the shaft Z. (See Figf.) The elevator f receives its driving power through a shaft 0, located in the bottom of the barge.

It is not deemed necessary to show in my drawingsv or describe any special devices through which motion may be conveyed from the shafts Z m o to the elevators T f and the Crushers t, since such devices are well known and maybe modified as best adapted for the purpose.

It is intended to have suitable clutches l in the shafts Z m 0, whereby one or all the means hereinbefore described at each coal-bunker may be thrown into or out of operation, and I would have it understood that the shafts m o may receive power from the main shaft Z through belting means q 9 s, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, or by direct shaft and gearing means, which will be understood, and therefore deemed unnecessary to illustrate.

The operation of my invention will be understood from the above description.v In its use coal passes through the bottom openings in the bins or bunkers into the buckets of the conveyer f, its How being limited by any suitable eut-os. (Not shown.) All large lumps of coal passing from the bins or bunkers are suitably reduced to be conveyed in the buckets by the crushers Zt. The conveyer f elevates and discharges the coal into the weighing-machine and from which it passes to the conveyer T, whereby it is elevated to the top of the tower Uanddischarged into the chute e tofbe delivered in the ships bunkers, as hereinbeiore described.

The weighing-machine may be automatic in action or manually operated.

I make no claim to any separate device or means employed.

The invention resides more particularly in the general combination of means and devices shown and hereinbefore described.

Having thus descrlbed my invention, what i I claim 'as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-H Apparatus and means for coahng boats, consisting of the combination with a coal-barge divided into separate bins, of a conveyer eX- tending down into the barge and under the said bins, a weighing-machine on the barge, located adapted for receiving the elevated coal, a second conveyer arranged for conveying coal from the weighing-machine, to an elevated position, achute into which the weighed and elevatedI coal is delivered, a beam, windlass, and ropes, whereby the said chute is adjustably supported, Crushers between the lower conveyer and outlet-openings in the said bins, a source of power on the barge, shafting and suitable connections through which driving power is conveyed to the said windlass, elevators, and Crushers, and means whereby the driving power may be cut off, substantially as described'.

HENRY DANIEL STEARNS. Witnesses:

J. W. T. STEPHENS, WILMER H. JOHNSON. 

